What Are Little Boys Made Of?

In this original BTB Investigation, we unveil the tragic story of Kirk Murphy, a four-year-old boy who was treated for “cross-gender disturbance” in 1970 by a young grad student by the name of George Rekers. This story is a stark reminder that there are severe and damaging consequences when therapists try to ensure that boys will be boys.

Slouching Towards Kampala: Uganda’s Deadly Embrace of Hate

When we first reported on three American anti-gay activists traveling to Kampala for a three-day conference, we had no idea that it would be the first report of a long string of events leading to a proposal to institute the death penalty for LGBT people. But that is exactly what happened. In this report, we review our collection of more than 500 posts to tell the story of one nation’s embrace of hatred toward gay people. This report will be updated continuously as events continue to unfold. Check here for the latest updates.

David Benkof: Behind the Mask

At first glance, David Benkof appears to be a young gay man who believes that same-sex marriage will damage the institution of marriage, that there are better options for gay couples than marriage, that the community should join him in prioritizing other more pressing issues, and that the marriage discussion is harming the efforts of gay couples in red states to get recognition for their unions. He also claims that he’s a gay columnist, that he speaks for an influential collection of gay thinkers, and that he is part of the gay and lesbian community and that he shares our goals and dreams. But none of that is true.

“Repeat After Me”: The Reparative Therapy Echo Chamber

The April 2008 edition of the pay-to-publish vanity journal Psychological Reports featured a new report from NARTH. Written by NARTH president A. Dean Byrd, past president Joseph Nicolosi, and Richard W. Potts, the report carries the unwieldy but self-descriptive title, “Clients perceptions of how reorientation therapy and self-help can promote changes in sexual orientation.” While the title describes what the authors meant to show — how clients describe the benefits of reparative therapy — the report itself actually illustrates something very different: the ex-gay movement’s remarkable ability to instill an almost robot-like parroting of ex-gay rhetoric among their clients.

Testing the Premise: Is MRSA The New Gay Plague?

The Toronto Star said that a new study “discover[ed] a new strain” of a super-bug “hitting gay men.” Headlines in Britain screamed, “Flesh-eating bug strikes San Francisco’s gay community,” and anti-gay extremists across America spread the alarm that gays were introducing another plague into “the general population.” But there was a small problem with all of this: None of it is true!

Paul Cameron’s World

In 2005, the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote that “[Paul] Cameron’s ‘science’ echoes Nazi Germany.” What the SPLC didn”t know was Cameron doesn’t just “echo” Nazi Germany. He quoted extensively from one of the Final Solution’s architects. This puts his fascination with quarantines, mandatory tattoos, and extermination being a “plausible idea” in a whole new and deeply disturbing light.

From the Inside: Focus on the Family’s “Love Won Out”

On February 10, I attended an all-day “Love Won Out” ex-gay conference in Phoenix, put on by Focus on the Family and Exodus International. In this series of reports, I talk about what I learned there: the people who go to these conferences, the things that they hear, and what this all means for them, their families and for the rest of us.

The Heterosexual Agenda: Exposing The Myths

At last, the truth can now be told.

Using the same research methods employed by most anti-gay political pressure groups, we examine the statistics and the case studies that dispel many of the myths about heterosexuality. Download your copy today!

Testing The Premise: Are Gays A Threat To Our Children?

Anti-gay activists often charge that gay men and women pose a threat to children. In this report, we explore the supposed connection between homosexuality and child sexual abuse, the conclusions reached by the most knowledgeable professionals in the field, and how anti-gay activists continue to ignore their findings. This has tremendous consequences, not just for gay men and women, but more importantly for the safety of all our children.

Straight From The Source: What the “Dutch Study” Really Says About Gay Couples

Anti-gay activists often cite the “Dutch Study” to claim that gay unions last only about 1½ years and that the these men have an average of eight additional partners per year outside of their steady relationship. In this report, we will take you step by step into the study to see whether the claims are true.

The FRC’s Briefs Are Showing

Tony Perkins’ Family Research Council submitted an Amicus Brief to the Maryland Court of Appeals as that court prepared to consider the issue of gay marriage. We examine just one small section of that brief to reveal the junk science and fraudulent claims of the Family “Research” Council.

Review: The Gay Report

When Karla Jay and Allan Young published The Gay Report in 1979, it quickly a favorite source of statistics for many anti-gay extremists. But before you accepts these statistic at face value, you should examine the inner workings of this survey very carefully. What you learn might surprise you.

Daniel Fetty Doesn’t Count

The FBI’s annual Hate Crime Statistics aren’t as complete as they ought to be, and their report for 2004 was no exception. In fact, their most recent report has quite a few glaring holes. Holes big enough for Daniel Fetty to fall through.

NOM’s new message

Timothy Kincaid

July 14th, 2010

Mike, in part I agree with you. It will cost a lot of money to fight this fight. However, no one is taking rights away from homosexuals. They are wanting rights that heterosexuals don’t have. There are no laws provided to heterosexuals based on their sexuality.

Next, they are “first-class citizens” like the rest of us. They are not being repressed, discriminated against. There is no and never has ever been a homosexual man hunt for them. Jews, Christians, and Blacks were hunted down and murdered. Homosexuals have nothing in common with the three.

Comments

Pliny

JonJon

I think they have completely lost it. To say that there has “never has ever been a homosexual man hunt for them.” and that “Jews, Christians, and Blacks were hunted down and murdered. Homosexuals have nothing in common with the three.” are so obviously complete lies without any basis whatsoever in history has to be a sign that they are just on furlough from the mental institute. It takes a really psychotic person to make up such lies and then believe them.

David

I’d add it doesn’t really matter if they are delusional…they people to whom they appeal are ready and willing to believe these claims. We can point out the intellectual dishonesty of these statement and press releases, but NOM’s supporters don’t really give a damn if gays are good people or contributing to society.

TJMcFisty

Richard W. Fitch

Okay, NOM, explain to us how the term “flaming faggot” camae into circulation? I suppose it had nothing to do with the fact that homosexuals were used as kindling for the burning at the stake of more egregious heretics………

Paul in Canada

Please, please, please click on the link and go to their FB page. Scroll down to the bottom (right) and click on ‘report page’ – click on ‘hate’. The more people that report this FB page the better chances we have of them being pulled off the site!

Paul, don’t have their Facebook page pulled. That just gives them more ammunition to say how we’re the ones who are really intolerant.

The people who go to their Facebook page (besides those of those who like to see the train wreck) also read their blog. They do so because this group encourages them in their existing beliefs. David is correct, these folks will find the information that supports their hate, and having their Facebook page pulled just gives them more reason to hate gay people. It won’t make anyone more tolerant.

In fact, I think they are pushing the hysteria envelope to get more money coming in, and it will work. But I think that in the process, people who might be on the fence will see their extremism, and disassociate. People who are already strong haters will continue to hate us and support NOM no matter what. You have to get to people face-to-face, and have a calm discussion with them, and work to show them that we’re not hydra headed beasts. That’s about all that works.

Everett

I think this NOM message is tailored to the youth on facebook who may not be aware of human history. NOM is probably trying to tap into those young people’s prejudices and sign them up for their movement. No well-educated adult with an open mind would take this NOM message at face value, but a teenager or young adult that doesn’t know history likely would buy into this stuff.

It’s interesting, and entirely predictable, to watch NOM go in the direction of the Peter LaBarberas of the world. It means they’re desperate, and that we’re winning public opinion so fast it’s giving them whiplash.

Here’s the Admin’s take on that little pink triangles thing: “Wikipedia, please. I can go onto Wikipedia and place anything on there at any time on any subject that has already been posted. It is a very sloppy place to do research.”

Nice. And I’m reading all this on Facebook, right above a post from The Advocate about that couple who were beaten in Staten Island recently. At some point, I fully expect to see these gutter crawling bigots just admit outright that violence is merely our due. Orson Scott Card, who is a NOM board member, is on record as saying the laws against sodomy are there not so much to lock us all up as to suppress homosexual behavior. Well I suppose violence does that too doesn’t it? At some point they’re just going to come right out and say that a fearful homosexual is a good homosexual.

Priya Lynn

VapoRob

Are there some extra rights that we are fighting for that I’m not aware of? I was under the impression that all we were asking for were the same rights that heterosexuals already have. And can you name anyone who has been straight bashed? I can name Mathew Shephard, Laurence King, and someone with the last name Aroro I think who was transgendered. My science, what Twilight Zone is this nuthead living in?

DN

What’s especially stupid about the Special Rights argument is that allowing marriage equality expands civil rights for *each and every* person living in that jurisdiction.

With marriage equality, instead of being required to marry a person of the opposite sex, straight people have the option (which no doubt they will choose not to exercise) to marry someone of the same sex.

Just because a person doesn’t want access to a right doesn’t mean, a) it’s a bad right or, b) that he has to take advantage of it. Look at smoking and gun ownership – two rights that a lot of people don’t take advantage of, but the people who do partake will scream bloody murder if you try to remove them.

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